IBM and the Holocaust — How Information Infrastructure Scaled Persecution
What happens when a system designed to count people becomes capable of organizing their persecution?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black as its lens, this investigation examines how information infrastructure can expand the administrative capacity of a destructive state.
Black argues that IBM, principally through its German subsidiary Dehomag and its European network, supplied and customized punch-card systems used in census operations, population classification, railway administration, forced-labor…
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